Regular Board Meeting, 2-24-2025, 6 PM

001e e e okay we'll go ahead and get started we're going to go ahead and get started so I call this Medina Valley ISD regular board meeting to order at 6 pm on February 24th 2025 we have a quarter of board members present absent board member is blae Nash we'll begin with a pledge allegiance followed by a Moment of Silence e first item on the agenda is public hearing on the district annual report Mrs [Music] Hendricks good evening board president members of the board Dr Kaos we we are here to have our district annual report so at the end of every year we go through and kind of this summarizes the 23 24 school year and so this is everything that is in our district Daniel report and everything is attached so anybody that wants

002once we put this on the website anybody that wants to access any of our reports they're all right here report um attached and basically we have eight sections that I'm going to go through pretty quickly and just give you some highlights all of this data has already been reported so um you know we've gone over our star scores we've gone over the stuff so this is just like it's not new it's just the final report so on um the first thing which is the taper and that is all of our reports from um tea and basically you can find your ccmr all of your star data your graduation all of that again it's attached some of our highlights are that we um continue to outperform this state and region in All Star tested areas definitely

003it is a big plus with our ccmr we went up at a time where most schools because of all the changes to ccmr they actually went down we we continue to go up with our percentage and then Medina Valley ISD is becoming a destination District we're attracting teachers from surrounding districts and our teacher turnover rate is over 3% below the state average which is huge at this time when you're hearing all this rhetoric about teachers leaving the field they're stay in in Medina Valley so we're proud of that we are going to continue to refine our instructional practices so that we make sure that all of our students continue to achieve at the highest levels and that every student grows every year which is one of our scorecard goals um the pem's financial standard report

004again all these reports are attached um basically you're wanting your um District's AFR results in a total variance of less than 3% we are actually close to 0% and we had um our first rating is an a which is superior achievement so we are continuing to refine those processes so that we can ensure Good Financial stewardship and financial transparency our accreditation we have not been accredited for the 23 24 school year because of all the lawsuits with ta so our last accreditation that we have is the 22 23 school year and that was an a for the 2024 our special education status is meets requirement that's the only thing that they actually released for us is that it does meet requirements um and again we're continuing to um refine our data analysis practices during our

005plc's which are professional learning communities and ilts which are instructional leadership team meetings to improve student performance especially among various student groups so that we can continue every student grows every year section four this is about our campus Improvement plans and our district Improvement plans so every year we actually present those to you but we have a comprehensive needs assessment that we do at the campus level and then also at the district level to come up with our goals um most of those are aligned to our scorecard and then our district Improvement plan is also so aligned to that so we look at those throughout the year and make adjustments as needed and those have been presented to you as well um so section five is the report on violent or criminal incidents on campuses

006Medina Valley ISD had no occurrences of violent or criminal incidents that are considered Mandatory expellable Actions so we are still doing a lot of things in this area um Mr langi has done a lot of work looking at our coding um of our incidents and I'm going to go over later on our scorecard update how our um percentage of students that that get office referrals or get removed from the classroom has gone down considerably this year so very proud of what we've done um student performance in post-secondary institutions this is actually the year before data they had not released this and right as I was walking out the door to come to this meeting they came in and said it was released but I didn't have a chance so I will do this in my

007um board update to you guys it is better um I think we went from 72 to 85 earned a 3.0 or above so um and they were able to track more of our students this year but like I said I got it right when I was walking out the door so we'll we'll update that before we post post it on the district website um progress towards meeting um board adopted House Bill three goals again these were goals that we set in 2019 um right before Co around that time and so um we've reported on this but we did decrease um we're at 52% on our grade three and we that decreased from 59% in 2023 and then in math it decreased from 55% and remember we talked about all this when we presented the scores

008with the change in the test and all of that stuff definitely something that we are going to continue to work on however these goals like I said were set in 2019 before that test change so um still making progress in those areas this is the ccmr so we actually went from 89.4 in 2022 to 93.4 um this year when most school districts went down um so the foundational skills students learn in our early grades are essential to their F future success in order to ensure that every student grows every year we're implementing implementing a districtwide phonics program and grades K through three and are implementing a blended learning model to increase student engagement and learning because this is where the foundation happens and then lastly we have our taper glossery which is supposed to be

009included and so again all of this um as soon as I changed that last one that we got the information will be posted to the district website if anybody wants a hard copy we can print out a hard copy of anything and it's it will be available um anywhere you go in the district if you go to a campus ask for the taper they'll print it out for you so are there any public feedback or comments okay yes okay thank you very much thank you next on the agenda is student and staff recognition we'll start with star students and L M the Middle School uh Miss Gonzalez sorry at Lal to Middle School good evening my name is jisha I'm in seventh grade at Lal to Middle School hello my name is Jamal strodder I

010am in seventh grade from lamala middle school hello my name is Emily sck I'm in e8th grade at Lala Middle School hello my name is Aubrey I'm in eth grade at L Alta Middle School on behalf of L Alta Middle School we'd like to thank our board members Dr Kos and our wonderful Community for allowing us to the opportunity to speak on behalf of the lomma Ala Wildcat wardrobe the Wildcat wardrobe idea came from Aubrey Sykes she felt it would help students if an accident happened or if they were out of dress code we all think having a wild cat wardrobe is a win for our students and families so if you imagine like you're walking in a cafeteria and somebody trips and bumps into you and spells catchup all over your shirt it's everywhere

011it's a mess before the Wildcat wardrobe you'd have to wait for your parents to come and drop something off you'd have to call and hope they were around or even able to get you something if not you'd have to sit in class with ketchup all over your shirt smelling like that how embarrassing thankfully this is where the Wildcat wardrobe comes into play the Wardrobe has clothing items and includes different hygiene supplies for students to come and get we're asking for help from the community which means you could be a part of it we are planning a drive for donations the first week of March Aubrey and Emily are handing out flyers that give information about the Wardrobe and the drive any help is appreciated there are boxes in the front office where students can can

012put the items they are donating another great thing about the war job is that it is student Le it allows all clubs and organizations to be included in stocking and organizing it we want our Medina Valley ISD community and lomma Alo Wildcat students to know that the Wardrobe is there to take what you need and give when you can thank [Applause] you can we get you guys back up here real quick just to give you your certificate please and take a quick photo with our board members and Dr Kos Emily get in there with them okay [Applause] at this time it is my honor to recognize one of our star teachers Miss Kristen sneen a teacher who goes above and beyond for her students for her team and for our community and staff members she

013does it selfless selflessly with compassion she's someone that we can all go to I think my admin team that are here tonight would also validate um Miss nethan is our star teacher please come on up Miss nethan for hey I just want to uh thank the students for coming tonight great job with your little presentation um what you're doing some of the stuff that you're doing are is is awesome right that's what's uh best for kids and so we thank you for all that you do on that campus and for the students in the school district um y'all are more than welcome to stay for the rest of the meeting would you like to do that no you want to go home y'all feel free to go home if you want to go home now

014we we'll we'll pause the meeting for just a minute while y'all exit e next item on the agenda is public comment we have no one sign sign up to speak so we'll move along to announcement communication and presentation we'll start with the board committee reports first one up will be the finance committee High School uh Middle School number three update update around portables for the high school and middle school this coming year and then also along with construction we had an elementary school number seven uh update as far as where where we're at and where we're going to be as far as starting the process of engaging an architect uh the next uh items we discussed were around budget budget amendment uh there'll be a campus allocation increases and then we'll discuss that further this

015evening and then the next item was around purchases um all of this will be coming to the board tonight for consideration around audit agreement uh CPS gas at the high school uh Middle School number three permitting e- raid equipment for Creek View High School uh CTE health science Testing and then uh food with Cisco and the last item was around Creek View High School uh we discussed hiring timelines for key Administration the attendance resoning uh enrollment Trends by grade level and then what the cost difference uh by gr grade level would be if we were to to open up with just ninth n9th and 10th grades or if we were to open up with 9th 10th and 11th so those are all the items we discussed in the finance committee any questions okay then we'll

016move on to the construction committee with Mr casig um yeah good evening um the construction committee met on February 12th 2025 uh the construction committee members are Joe biger bla Nash and myself uh the items that we discussed were an update to Creek View High School um and also looking at the invoices that we received from CPS for gas service for that campus um that'll be discussed later further tonight um we also looked at the where were the status of our uh work with tech. related to the driveway permitting and entrances for that campus um then we discussed the Medina Valley Middle School number three project um we looked at the Medina Valley High School a and Junior RC Roc project upgrade update and where we're at with that uh then we discussed the need

017for Portables around the district to um to help with the growth that we're going to see before we open these new campuses and then we also looked at the uh construction of Elementary School number 7even any questions okay if not then we'll move on to Safety and Security committee with Mr wattis uh good evening everybody um Safety Committee met February 13th 2025 uh the committee consists of myself Jenn Campbell and Nathan fillinger uh items I discussed was the Medina Valley is Police Department update on where we we stand right now regarding with tle uh the Marshall update Medina Valley High School uh safety audit uh the access control installation updates for our systems along with the camera system update uh we also went through the Creek View hiring timeline and what we're looking at regarding

018that uh the attendance zones and Creek View opening cost comparison any questions okay we'll move on next is the de uh the demographer presentation with Mr Huff awesome great thank you so much good evening how are yall all right well great to be with you tonight uh and and to go over this uh so um board president U finger members of the board thank you so much for the opportunity to be able to go and talk you through all this so I'll try not to uh take too long but uh there is quite a bit to go over so I'll I'll take you through it um one of the big things is something that the district has been uh seeing and has been feeling um we're referencing it in in the chart here um just

019the amount of growth that thect district has seen over the last 5 years so you can see that uh related to the overall number of students uh and change you can see that you're a little over 3,200 students added uh to the district's enrollment over the last five years um but percentage wise that's significant compared to many of the other districts that you have uh in in in within the overall region so um some regions have experienced loss but you can definitely see uh the challenge that the district has been feeling uh when you take into consideration that that significant of a percentage increase overall we look at what's happening with the uh with the economy uh fairly solid we have seen an slight uptick uh in un Unemployment uh really from where we were

020last year at this time but again overall we see the economy as being extremely strong we continue to see uh job growth uh efforts to continue to move uh companies from uh um from elsewhere into to the state of Texas uh there was an announcement just evened of today where Apple's opening uh a new plant down in the Houston area so again there's an effort to consistently move move businesses into the uh into the into the Texas and specifically into major hubs um within the overall uh state so um we're right there for sure again this was an example of that type of of development that's there this guide housee consulting firm that uh uh is is moving into the region uh potentially could be roughly about a thousand future jobs out there so again

021um many of these firms have been developing and growing the economy uh and bringing a lot of folks into our area with all that population growth you can see the amount of housing activity that's taking place uh and again when we look at housing starts uh in within our states you can see U the representation that's there so you can see really four uh of of the municipal or the the Metro areas uh within the state of Texas are within the top six in the country um and San Antonio being number four uh with annual starts um tracking about 18,23 to starts uh this uh for this past uh year we'll also kind of evaluate kind of the pace of things what's happening related to closings and starts um within the region so um when

022you think about what's happened the last several years we've had a lot of different things that have happened whether it was Supply challenges complications with construction uh projects and those kind of things um those have seemed to have finally started to level out so that you can see both supply and demand somewhat are in lock step um with the pace of activity currently right now at least over the last two quarters um and again um a fairly consistent uh closing is as we'll point to here um uh in the next few uh charts you're also going to see kind of what's happened with price points uh again that that escalation in in uh pricing over the last several years um again from from where it was at 217,000 for a new home um back in

023that 2014 about 10 years back existing homes were in that 180,000 range um and both of those price points have got into that 300 325,000 range um this past year so um have escalated fairly quickly over the last several years again we're we're tracking more specifically in the in the region uh so you could see the district is at uh kind of in that third spot um I know the district would be more than happy to uh go down just a little bit and not be up there at the the high end of of of that chart if if it all possible but you can see the amount of starts that are there with that 2377 starts but we want to always track closings um because again that's tracking families and in the population people

024moving into the area so you can see that you're uh you were third there at 2,410 annual uh closes and then we'll track What's Happening by quarter uh again fairly strong um 2024 year related to both starts and closings um more starts than you've had um in in the last several years even with the significant amount of growth that you've had the last several years so again at that annual start rate of 230 uh 2300 almost 2400 starts um and this past that that fourth quarter was extremely strong with about 645 uh home starts and again when you look at the closings right there in lockstep um again at 2410 uh closings and again when you look at that really the third quarter and fourth quarter extremely high numbers 811 uh closes in the third

025quarter followed by 568 in the uh in the fourth quarter and again we're going to track just uh what that means related to where the activity is taking place um and and so you can see specifically uh kind of patrono has has is is kind of second there with with with the uh uh Zone with the amount of of activity taking place um and then of course leera has the has the highest amount of activity um whether it's starts closings uh the amount of inventory that's there um it is a significant amount of inventory so not only when we're tracking the amount of activity that's taking place related to closings but also being aware of the amount of housing that's out there that's available to be closed on is also something to be uh be

026aware of so then looking at kind of the big picture of things related to the overall U developments uh in the district you have 65 active building uh subdivisions throughout the entire District uh you do have 13 Futures that are out there that are conceptual or have been platted those are in yellow um we do have uh 16 subdivisions that have some groundwork activity currently taking place roads utilities going in uh so that's about 2,800 total lots that are are in that stage of activity uh and then just this past quarter about 1,500 Lots were ready and turned over um to to be able to be uh built on so again a tremendous amount of activity and you'll you'll see that in some of the aerial footage that we have and with some of the

027slides on on the developments so Woodlands uh there u in in patranco attendance Zone again almost 1,400 total lots that are a part of that um has 229 of those that are vacant developed um they've had moving dirt work and those kind of things in that phase one through four uh and they are anticipating uh Home Building um again starting this spring so uh quite a bit of activity taking place right now Castle Rock communities is the uh the Builder for that for that development and again you see the aerial footage um just really this past month showing the amount of dirt work and Roads uh going in for that overall development uh Preserve of uh kbra um again, 1500 total lots that are a part of that um again 130 vacant develop lots that

028are currently available to be built on there is some activity taking place right there uh with 30 homes currently under construction they do have 292 occupied homes uh in that development again they're tracking um between 100 100 between 100 to 150 homes a year um being built so uh price point is is very competitive at that 290,000 uh range you all we have a future that's down there just to the South Hidden burough uh 255 total Futures that are there that was has been recently ploted um and then just just to the uh South Ad joining to that is Trails of cbra um again an additional 960 total lot is that it's a part of that 59 vacant develop Lots left to be built on there and we do show there are 42 homes that

029are currently being built um in the development we also see in that same area Timber Creek that's in that 397 total Lots 115 Futures that are out there um again about 30 homes that are currently under construction right now in that in that overall development um price points are a little bit higher in this in this area uh but again they're building and setting uh setting up an additional 115 lots that are going to be in the third phase of that overall development so again you see the amount of activity by the aerial uh view of of all the activity taking place in that development uh Abby Hill uh 775 Futures that are out there again those that are active currently right now has about 95 vacant develop Lots um within that development this was

030being um developed and built by Perry hommes um and then you've got Westridge that has the the 2500 uh total lots a fairly significant development down there with the numbers we're talking about um and again uh in in in this initial phase that they've got 321 vacant develop Lots left to be built on so and this is uh with beer homes uh in the Ladera uh Zone we have uh Ladera that has almost 2500 total Lots in in that development there 812 Futures they they've got a lot of uh vacant develop lots that are ready to be built on so over 440 lots that are currently there right now um again they've started over 500 homes um when you over the last 12 months so a lot of activity that's taking place um and again

031of that lot that those those numbers that we talked about related to that chart on that quarterly um you can see that 198 of those homes um were were just in that in that specific development and then we've got Stonehill uh that has 1467 total Lots there again 442 vacant develop lots that are there right now some homes under construction with 25 homes showing to be uh currently under construction a Dr hordon uh development so as as we see in many of these developments these production Builders are building quite significant quantities uh uh as they're going through here in the various different phases uh you can also see the Costa you see the mosquite ridge has 360 total Lots there 244 future lots that are part of this um first few lots have been delivered

032this really in just this last quarter of 24 and that is a p Home Development uh and then just to that South is uh henby Hollow again almost 1500 Lots uh in that overall development 1,90 future Lots um 266 vacant develop Lots left to be built on there uh within that one of those phases there um again early on so they've got about 69 uh homes that are occupied um in this area currently right now uh and again it's it's this Ashton Woods price points are in the 200s um so it's affordable and uh we participate quite a few folks moving into the area in this in this specific region um and then right next to that is it's theel um phase of that that's this uh 458 uh total Lots again showing about 24

033homes under construction currently right now um 83 of those are occupied currently so same builder in same price range and then in the lucky Ranch uh attendance Zone you've got uh uh this uh lucky Ranch South development that has um 1,694 total lots that are part of that um 18 homes that are under construction within that development currently right now they have closed approximately about 71 homes um in this past year uh and this is that LGI home so again another developer that's Builder that's building a number of homes all at one time um significant number of homes being built um in various different phases but the the quantities are always significant with a number of these production Builders tiarra uh bua here is the bu is the uh 1,400 total lots that are a

034part of this again 899 Futures that that are there um 48 homes that we show to be under construction um and so um we see that about 141 of those homes uh have started in the last 12 months so again fairly significant Pace uh of of Home Building in this area as well and this is KB Homes again um in that 200 uh 220,000 um price range and then really just a couple of Futures that are identified here tra Lael and in Briggs Ranch north you'll see that really combined this is over 3500 total Lots um that have been had had some version of platting um really in the last uh in the last year or so so continue to anticipate um activity in this in this area continuing to develop and so bottom line

035uh you have seen a significant amount of growth related to some of those percentages and based off of the activities that are there um we would still anticipate that growth being in that double digit range um so as you saw am I doing that okay sorry uh you've seen kind of that 15% I I can mess up a clicker I promise you I can mess it up somehow um again um seeing that we were at 10% last year growth and and really this current year at that 11% we do feel like based off of the amount of activity that's taking place we're we're going to stay in that General range of growth um going into next year so uh again we would anticipate that um I think our our next slide will will show kind

036of a the Campus View of that um again ultimately when we look at the overall big picture of what we think will happen in the next five years um that gets us to a little over that 14,000 almost 300 uh student range and then um 10 years out um again with continued progression of the amount of of lots that we've been talking about at the pace we've been talking about um could get us up to about 19,000 a total student students uh by the time we get out to that 3435 time frame um and then finally we'll just kind of talk highlight kind of what that means for uh each of these elementary schools um again with the lot numbers that are there uh they can get fairly significant so you can see when we

037look at that 10year out uh range that these numbers uh get anywhere from about 1,400 all the way out for some of those uh could could have an enrollment of approximately 2,000 um when you when you look at what the Lera Elementary zone so um significant numbers growing over the next several years um that also continues on with the middle school and high school um but with the work and the bond work that the district is doing we we know that that'll some of the secondary um uh capacity is going to be freed up with with the projects that are out there right now so so all that said again continued growth and activity and uh kind of in that double digit range related to increases uh that are out there um big picture related

038to the amount of developments that are out there the district still has about 65 uh active building subdivisions um really that have approximately about 52 100 lots that are available to be built on uh currently right now with many still to come um and again significant number of Futures as we've talked to about the the numbers that are out there related to that big number of of really over 27,000 future lots that could be be out there um some sooner than later um but a significant number of lots that are out there again 2,800 lots that are currently active um within about 16 of those subdivisions so again F more more lot Supply um being generated by these production Builders uh and again when we just talked about the the big picture of where we

039think the enrollment is going to be for the district again is at that 14,000 uh range 5 years out and in 19,000 um 10 years out happy to answer any questions you may have any questions I don't think we're slowing down looks like we're picking up yep thank you thank you appreciate moving on next we have the construction briefing with Mr bras good evening Mr President members of the board Dr Kos Kos here to help me assist the presentation is RT hog with Barlett General Contractors I'm sorry I'm moving too fast on this one um we're still uh tracking substantial completion to be done by June of 2026 uh and we're about 58% complete as a pay application number 15 which is this Friday this is about a 3% increase from the last presentation we

040give roughly about $8 million um uh difference from January to February again the bartlet's really blowing in going out there to be able to construct $8 million worth of work in in one month so what that means as you can see here on the aerial view of the southeast portion of our building uh a lot of the roof is now really all of the roof is now dried in in terms of exterior cladding the stone brick uh is nearly almost complete and should be complete by next month the pending larger piece of the of the work on the skin side is the metal panel that goes above the the stone U align there that you see U however barley cooch has moved forward installing hatch Chanel and insulation and preparation for the installation of that

041metal panel throughout on the second story of um of the building on the next image this is our academic Courtyard a lot of retaining walls that are being poured in place again this has to be built due to our site being tiered this is what will hold uh that tier seating and difference in elevation um through what is known as the academic area um B on the top side and academic area C on the bottom of the screen uh more sight related items on the baseball field the storm drainage is being installed uh by the subcontractor a lot of the flat work is uh either complete or near completion on both baseball and softball uh more IM of the envelope this is outside of what will be the cafeteria and a lot of storefront being

042installed uh glazing again here you can see the insulation and the hatch panel and preparation for the uh metal panel um more uh surrounding however what I wanted to point out is the duct work that's at the bottom of the screen there that's the dehumidification system that Bartle has installed in place this is to assist the timeline being that we you we don't have permanent power yet um this is utilized in order for them to keep the timeline and the space dehumidify to installed a lot of the Interior finishes throughout the building but now to talk on the interior I'll let it I'll give it up to R team good evening everyone uh Dr Kos members of the board uh to segue in from what rapel was saying so this is the um one of

043the typical science classrooms you're going to see lab casework going in with the dehumidification units running the past month able to pull a lot of moisture out of that air and be able to install wood like items so this started um this past week this is the mockup classroom pinning the fume Hood installation in that corner right there that's coming next week they'll wrap that up with the countertops and uh be done in that room and you have about 12 of these typical Labs throughout the throughout the building so you can see sealing grid is in in these areas terminating devices for fire alarm um occup occupancy sensors um throughout trimming out the electrical devices on the walls and uh essentially cleaning up that room have one last final polish of the floor and the

044for the polished concrete and be done and lock it up so um area BC is U looking a lot similar to this in in a lot of the classroom areas with the ceiling Grid in um and uh trimming out devices everywhere this is a a restroom in area BC tile complete on the walls pinning fixture installation um which will be after or before I'm sorry the toilet partitions go in which will be next month they're going to start installing fixtures here soon um and again to essentially close up these areas and and move on to other parts of the building but this is a typical classroom and BC the you could like Rafael mentioned not have having permanent power we got some temporary lights hung in there so it's the serving area at the kitchen

045um to your left through those Overhead Doors is where the um kitchen area is this is the open serving area and to the right it will be the cafeteria area duck Works being installed in there instulation of the duck around the duck work overhead doors um will be tracking here in the next two months for the interior the exterior overhead doors to help Clos the envelope will be here starting next month um hopefully all of our glazing and and exterior doors will be wrapped up here in the next month and a half so we can seal tight the building when we do have air on pushing everywhere so then one thing I thought was interesting I I was looking at it last year um or last week so this is actually a a job site

046photo from February 21st last Friday of last year so you can tell we were doing peers mud slab actually erecting the second tower crane at that time had not poured a foundation of the of the building actually our first Foundation P was March 13th 2023 to give an idea of where we are right now of uh last this was taken last Friday um so a lot of a lot of work put in place obviously a lot of lot of uh effort by our subcontractors and trade part Partners on site a lot of hours put in by them obviously uh hats off to them had to have a good crew out there putting in a lot of work and so um and and far as the site it that's that's Pro progressing along as well um

047we're hoping to get chomping at the bit starting the Athletics portion soon so it's the only part of the site that's been a little stagnant but that'll start here soon so any questions yeah what is uh what's the latest on the CP on CPS providing power for the facility so all invoices have been paid uh I know they dressed up the polls um on the entry so now it's we had our final inspection or have our final inspection tomorrow with CPS barring anything crazy that we don't know about um we should be ready to go to where they're going to release the Transformers and we'll get on their schedule we don't we've been asking what that timeline is they've been telling us the trans Transformers are readily available in their yard um so hopefully hopefully

048that is the case and we're on the schedule and uh we get them here in the next month or so okay good any got a question thank you thank you appreciate it next we have District scorecard presentation with Miss Hendricks okay good evening again so I have a lot of information here I'm going to go as quickly as I can because it it gets it's it's a lot of data um but it's it's pretty good data so I'm excited to present it to you so basically our Priority One scorecard is every student grows every year um we have set these goals and remember by 2027 and so um we're supposed we started out at 49% that was where we were last year so this year at middle of the year so this is not the

049end of the year this is just middle of the year of 2025 we are looking at 55% which is on our way to to the 65% goal that we set for 2027 so um we we are doing really well we are looking at Algebra 1 as um an area now this does not mean that these students didn't grow but they didn't grow at the projection that we wanted them to and so this is not an algebra issue per se it's more like the vertical alignment leading up to algebra and the questioning in the rigor of our students and so like even today we had a group of fifth and sixth grade teachers that were meeting outside of our regularly scheduled PD so that they could look at the vertical alignment and make sure that we're

050preparing kids to take advanced classes in sixth grade leading into seventh grade so that they can take algebra in e8th grade I mean that's our goal is we want more kids to take Advanced um math in eighth grade one of the things that was interesting is we had um there are only 77 students districtwide that were taking math in 8th grade and that should be our top of the top kids and um only 42% of those met their growth projection so they could still be scoring high they just did not grow the way we wanted them to so this is definitely something that we're going to look at we've got a lot of high performer high achievement in math our students are very smart in math um so we need to look at the curriculum

051to make sure that in in instruction to make sure that we are helping every student grow every year the students at the bottom of the pack and the students at the top um as well as the ones in the middle so that's where a lot of the differentiation is coming in um when you look at it overall this is what it looks like by grade level so you can see in Kinder we made a lot of growth we are actually above so the bluish color is the observed growth so that's where our students did and then the triangle is the Norms or the projected growth which is at the 50th percentile so you can see we were you know had a lot of growth in Kinder we were right at the line in um first

052grade and then second and third fourth fifth were above the projected growth but then we get to our middle schools and we're seeing that there's not um we're not continuing that growth so there is a big jump between fifth and sixth grade curriculum wise um but we want to make sure that our kids go into that being prepared to do that advanced math any questions on math what do we think is contributing to it I mean that's a significant drop there so I think that we have put for years um the state of Texas districts have put a lot of pressure on the St test a lot of you know we've got to do good we've got to do good so there's a difference between teaching kids to critically think and teaching kids to test

053strategy how to take a test and so I think we as a community as the board I'm asking you too I think we need to stop you know the start test is one day it's not the most important the the thing we like about map is it measures growth from the beginning of the year till the end of the year our goal is every student grows not every student passes the star test and I know that's our state testing and it's something that we do but I feel like if we focus on teaching them critical thinking skills the St test is easy um so I think we do and I think our teacher feel that pressure because we have focused so much on it so I don't I think it's it's it's on us like

054we've got to take that pressure off of them so that they can get back to teaching our kids need to do math and read they don't need to practice test taking so my opinion okay um let's move on to reading so you can see here we have um 56% so we were we started out at 48% our goal by 2027 is 65% so we did one through eight reading we're at 56% exciting news this is the first year that we tested our bilingual students in English and in Spanish and at 53% in Spanish they are pretty much right in line with our other students this year which is exciting because not that we had the scores from the past but um you know we're trying something new and they're holding their own so very excited

055about that and then English one and English two again 55% so I think we are on our way to meeting our goal this is what it looks like in Reading when you look at the grade levels so um we don't test in Kinder because we have to turn in data to the state and they don't allow us to use map um so we don't want to over test we don't test them um we use mclass but you can see in first second third I mean we're really doing well and then when we get to those tested grades we start um you know not that we're not meeting our growth targets but I think that we again need to you know the more you read the better you read the better the better your mind draws

056conclusions and all of those things and there was one class that I went in this year that I was talking to the kids and I was like hey do you like that program and they're like I do but I just they make us do it every time we get finished with our work and I just want to read my book and like that's that's what we want kids to say so um you know I think again assessment is important we want to make sure that our kids are learning but we also want them to enjoy school and get to read their books okay any questions on reading no Ju Just a statement again it looks like once we get to middle school that's when we our growth starts to stagnate so I mean just trying

057to understand is that a curriculum issue you know what what is it so we've been working with the Middle School principles I think one thing is um it might have a little bit to do with engage like I don't want to say the teachers aren't engag engaging but our students want to collaborate with each other they want to work in groups and problem solve like their favorite time of the day when you look at survey data is recess lunch they they want to collaborate with their friends and so what we've noticed as we've gone around to all the campuses especially Middle School is it's kind of teacher centered so teachers they're worried about misbehavior I think so they they keep very tight control of the classroom and so the students I think are not as

058engaged as they would be if they were able to collaborate I know last week um Miss Gonzalez has really done and miss miss siss has too they're really focusing on increasing that engagement and I think we'll see the more kids are engaged in learning the more they own that learning the better they do um so I think part of it just has to do with that disengagement that you naturally go through during adolescence but I do think that we need to focus on moving from teacher centered to student centered learning sure I'd like to say that we also use map data for all students that are incoming with our high Mobility rate and the growth that we see throughout the years I know in the last three years we've gone from 705 students to sitting

059at 1,65 today we don't know where these students are some of them were exempt some of them didn't take the you know the star um they came from out of state so um we're really looking at finding unique ways to fill that Gap as soon as possible and so we're grateful for map growth we're grateful for NWA and all the reports um to truly show our families um that every student can grow and we can use the data to show were they were they're at when they first started and where we're headed I think our parents have been very grateful for that so currently we we're when are we doing map map testing so we do it in September August late August early September we do it in January and then we do it at

060the end of the year so it's three times beginning of the year middle of the year and end of the year how many times have we done that so far I mean I know I re I know it's pretty recent that we started doing so we started last year so we did do it three times last year so that's where we got our Baseline data to set the scores on and then we've done it we we completed testing in um August late August and then just in January so this is the first this is where we have our first growth from the beginning of the year till the middle of the Year okay and that's what this data is here yeah so is do we I mean it sounds three times a year I mean

061I realize we have a lot of students coming in continuously I mean is there ways to to do that for those students sooner so we can test them as soon as they come like she was saying to get a baseline score it's not always included in the this report because it it has to like we have testing windows and we close it to get our data correct but we can see we can test them separately and see what their score was when they came in and then is um after but that is the hardest thing with best birth I mean I'm thankful that we have this but you have students coming from all over and um you know again that's the differentiation needs to be our biggest Focus because we have so many different levels

062in classrooms now it's not like it used to be where they just kind of did what the teacher told them and just moved along at the the um same Pace like we've got real differ in abilities in CLS thank you e e e what what is the what what defines the the percentile is a score range yeah score range okay yes so it just divides that that bell curve into percentile range okay so anything about like the 21st to the 40th is the peach are those are those uh score ranges staying the same from period to period here so the percentile will stay the same but we are moving in the right direction you can see so that was seven the blue was 17% in the fall and then in Winter it went up to

06319 but like for example in the 20th percenti what is the score range an example of what we would use there on the map testing I mean is it in other words are we measuring fighting creating percentiles based on your range of scores correct yes nationally normed so they set those cut marks and then ours our students fall within those ranges okay National okay yeah that's what I was trying to understand that's why I like this also is because we are sending our students out into a loal economy and it's not just Texas students that they're going to be competing with so I like that we're nationally norming our students to see where they're falling and that then drives where we need to focus okay how many districts use it my gosh like percentile wise

064I can look that up I don't know that but I would say most schools in Texas have now gone to using this and then nationally I mean it is huge started out as a research company and then H&H H&H I think just bought them yeah good I guess part love if it would take you part of me I mean I we're trying to reduce the percent the number of students in the lowest percentile but by definition I'm trying to understand you know we do that do we move them you know we move them to the middle I mean it's a bell curve distribution so you're trying to move them up toward the center of the bell curve but we want our students fiddle point to be way higher than everybody else's okay that's what I

065was wondering yeah y'all said shoot high shoting high e oh my goodness sorry um that's a huge thing when your secondary teachers are making connections with their students and that 85% of them know that their teacher wants them to do their best and also I have to work to receive good grades like 92% that's way up from last year so um again and we said we were going to just we're not necessarily using the um surveys to measure growth or anything like that but I think it's important that our students have a voice in their education okay um so now we're going to move on to ccmr so I want everybody to understand that this data is a lagging measure so it's an indicator that is it's after the fact so we're going to be

066talking about the class of 2023 and we're about to graduate 2025 so this is two years behind so um we're not going to see we've done a lot of um focus and support in this area but we're not going to see that for a couple of years because um it's such a lagging indicator so ACT SAT participation we did see some growth we want to be at 75% % by 2027 we went from 43% to 51% so again this was class of 23 um so far this year we have tested 252 students um on schoolwide testing days and we have another one in the spring so I think we're definitely going to be making progress in this area but it's just going to take a little bit of time um as Fab so last year

067we we tested 97 students this year we've already tested 114 so um you know definitely making progress okay so inre from Co and removing re yes because yeah you didn't have to take that test 24 2024 is the first year that you will have to have it again okay so um we will definitely see an increase in that so um increasing um the students at or above the Criterion from 30.4% to 50% by 2027 so note the notes are up there so the ACT Criterion score is 23 um and then sat is 480 in Reading Writing and 530 in math so those are kind of our targets if you reach that you um meet the Criterion um I have some data but let's just okay so I I really want to show you this because

068again this is not necessarily a high school thing this is this is I think the focus on testing all the way up so this test um this is map still but it it's projections on how you will do on ACT SAT so this is the reading and you can look um so 60% of our kids are not on track for um act which means they're they're not going to be that 23 so you can see that 10% are on track to make a 22 and then 30% are on track to make a 24 but I I really want we do go up to 10th grade so you can see the percentages and where they fall um but this this starts in fifth grade so this is something that we're going to have to work on

069and and like I I said getting into that critical thinking you can see on the SAT we are um more on track with that but we still have we have some work to do um so this is this is where we're we're already one of the things we're doing right now is um moving from instead of honors and advanced classes we're moving to preap so that we can try to get um more our kids into preap AP classes it's a different it's total focused on critical thinking and problem solving instead of just you know answering questions so so this is where we are in reading and then this is where we are in math and I've told y'all you know with math we we definitely have to change our culture around um advanced math and

070try to get more of our students into this because what you have to realize is 48% I believe somewhere around there 48% of students in Texas take algebra in eighth grade so they're a year ahead of our kids um when they're taking this test so that has a lot to do with this so getting that culture of we're pushing our kids you know one of the reasons I've heard is that they don't want to take um calculus their senior year so we've added a bunch of um math other math courses that they can take their senior year so that's not going to be an obstacle we're looking at if it's really about GPA which I hope it's not but if it is we we can look at giving GPA in e8th grade if we need

071to if that will encourage our kids to take it but we we are putting them at a disadvantage by not putting them in algebra so whatever we need to do we're we're committed to doing that any questions this all stems from preparing for a STAR test really and not the critical thinking like you're talking about right yes okay um so tsia results so this is the college entrance test to see if your college ready or not so um at or above the Criterion we're at 10.3% we want to be at 50% now again this this is impacted because um Texas what was our community college that we use Tex Southwest yeah they don't they didn't require us to take tsia so you could use your star test to get in so again we've we've had

072that be like our exit test because that was what they took um with Alamo Colleges where we're moving now um they are going to have to take tsia so more of our kids will be taking this test T more of our top kids that are going into dual credit so I think this will definitely go up um AP participation you know we're we're at 4.6% we moved up to 5.9 I think this dat is around 25% um you know I like a combination of dual credit and AP but AP definitely I mean it is it requires a lot of critical thinking problem solving so um I think with our new principal um she comes from a AP background I think we can get a good balance of dual credit and AP at the high school

073and let our kids choose if they want to take both one or the other but get more advanced classes at what at what level do they take the TS tsia test so if they're going to take um dual credit as a junior they would take it their sophomore year I wonder why they use a separate test and using sat or act another way to make money I guess I mean how do the two tests compare um this test is probably a lot shorter um you can I think you can take it with whoops sorry I was like did I do that um I think you can take it in like an hour hour and a half each section whereas you know Act is is longer um I think this was a way because lots of

074kids were going to college and flunking out and so they did this to try to see you know if you don't score at the Criterion you have to take remedial courses in college so it was a way to kind of separate um that okay so dual credit completion rates we're at 51.5% I want to be at 75% by 2027 class of 23 was 53.5 so um I think we'll probably do better um with this with Alamo College because they will have more criteria like if you don't if you make a D in a class you probably can't take another class right away so I think it will help with our completion rates CT completers status again this is so far back but we I want to be at 50% by 2027 right now we're at

07527.6% we actually went down two points even though our total rating for ccmr went up so it doesn't really make sense but we are really looking at this and getting everything aligned especially as we're moving into opening the new high school um getting all of this very structured is going to help us okay I'm on almost done a promise here is um a survey so school has prepared me for life after graduation um last year this was 37.8% and this year it was 61.7% so we we actually had this data from last year was the same question so we're moving in the right direction now when we do this again in the spring they might be angry they might all say hasn't but um it was a good data point to look at and um

076this is just real quick I want to say this Mr langi had to leave but this is a lot of his work um so we wanted to reduce the percentage of discipline removals on Elementary campuses from 18 to 10% um right now at this time we are at 2.8% so um he has really offered a lot of leadership and and really coding things correctly and so he's done a great job and then um secondary we wanted to go from 5026 to 40% right now we're at 19.8% and you know a lot of the things that happen we we don't really have control over if they have a vape you know that it's an automatic dap but um I can tell you that we're really making some positive um gains in this area so we did

077the discipline and behavior Matrix that everybody in the district you know we took it to the teacher groups we took it we brought it to y'all we had teachers work on it administrators work on it counselors looked at it um I think that has helped with consistency of behavior AC of of discipline across the district and then I know at the high school they're having um Behavior meetings once a week we have this positive pathway where social workers and VPS and everybody meet about students to try to really fix the problem instead of just give punishment um we've started the pillars of Excellence which is a behavior committee so we really are focused on this and I hope it will have a positive impact not only on our behaviors but also on um on their

078growth okay here's yes sorry we'll go back what how is the percentage defined I mean what is that a percentage of 137 is 2.8% of what is that a state average no this is all just from Skyward this is our data so I believe and I I he was going to be here to do this so thanks Matt for putting well you can tell me later but I I mean I'm curious of you know how we're defining that percentage I mean you know the numbers look high but compared compared to what you know I total number of students maybe okay divided by yeah I will find out for sure and I will let you know I think the way it is is the enrollment of the campuses and then how many how many referrals we've

079had okay that's what I think okay and then second question yes they going down because we've let them get away with more or because we're interacting sooner I don't think so I think it's because we're doing positive PBIS positive behavior interventions and supports and it's not getting to that okay and I I also do think that there were some coding issues just because I I had to do the discipline validation thing last year when you know we were just like if okay so one of our instance was a kid whatever he got in trouble for he had an in number and so he went to ISS but then they decided after the investigation that he needed to go to deap well instead of tying it to that same instant number they created a different one

080so a lot of our discipline was doubled because we weren't um communicating so that's something that we're also really working on anything else and the next question how do we how do we determine which these are new students are the is it an incident for every student or I mean does it or is it multiple in incidents for one student I mean so Le let's just say there's a a fight so that's one incident but there's two it's tied to two students so a lot of our errors also are like that so what I'm getting at is this 137 or 963 incidents how many kids is that is it the 50 I don't know I will get you that information yes some of those could be rep yes there are definite repeat offenders but um

081huh yeah it'd be good to see that though get a percentage of what how many of those are repeat be good to see that that would help us understand what we're looking at okay I will get Mr langy Right on that okay and then I think we're getting close this is um just some more survey data so we have our elementary and then our second Dairy I feel safe at school this is you know for elementary 86.9 3% and then secondary 63.5 five% so I mean yes we want this to be more we want all kids to feel safe at school but um it is what it is um so y'all can look at this if you have any questions questions we can answer those and then attendance um we are really working hard to

082get this up um it was 94% at the end of the year last year we want to go to 96% by 2027 right now it's 93.8 3% so we've got some work to do um we did we have created a attendance website and we have our first task force meeting this week I think so we're really focused on trying to make parents aware of the importance of having their kids at school I I will make one comment on that though you know having kids at lacost elementary we're always at the bottom of the barrel right I would give kudos to that that school and their administration because they've done they've done great things just in the past couple weeks and they're at the top as of this last week weren't they right there's quite the

083competition going with the elementary so now they're calling parents and um it it's it's it's fun to watch yeah so I'm sure the kids they enjoy having pajama days twice a week so that's a big part of it got to give them rewards okay um so basically um we haven't decided how we're going to measure extracurricular and co-curricular we talked about this a lot at our Workshop but you know we have made the playoffs in volleyball football um boys and girls basketball and we've had a lot of state qualifiers um with FFA skills USA I think the education group Tafe went to um state so we have a lot of things I'm hoping at the end of the year we can kind of summarize and do a presentation just on our students and everything that

084they've accomplished this year to kind of meet that and that's the end any questions okay I yeah one one statement more than a question though um appreciate the transparency in the data that that came out there because there's lots of good data that are highlighting opportunities that we need to go um attack so appreciate the transparency in that and then looking forward to those swinging the other way yes thank you okay next we have the financial brief briefing with Mrs harmish good evening I'm like I hate to come back to you with more numbers because I feel like you've been in number overload tonight but um we'll make this one pretty quick so um here's just kind of that executive summary of where our financials are for the month of January or month year to

085date through January um we are still looking on track we do see like our Revenue new percentages that we've collected are higher than what they were last year at this time but if I look two years ago they're pretty on track so I think a lot of this is to do with just knowing our property taxes are more in line and our state revenue and state aid was more predictable this year without the additional hold harmless and state things that were going on um but I think that we're we're definitely on the right track as far as Collections and then we were conservative um in our Revenue projections as well um with our student enrollment and things like that so we we should be in a good spot um at least in the general fund

086so far this year um again food service is on track as well we're 5 12ths of the way through the year 41% and so for most for the most part our expenditures are in that in that 43 to 40% kind of range and so we're doing pretty good probably the biggest biggest thing to kind of talk about on this one that's a little bit different is the debt service side so Debt Service stays pretty quiet until we start collecting taxes and then all of a sudden we have revenue and it's great and then we also made some debt payments so we've done both that um the a defeasance in December for around $8 million and then we made our debt payment um here it's it's due February 1st but we always were getting those in

087um ahead of time in January so so we saw that post in January as well so you'll see see those numbers there some movement in there for the first time really this year um and you'll as we go through the bond one we'll also see that we transferred that Bond 23 interest to make the bond 23 interest payment in February so you'll see that transition over so that's making up a little bit of that Revenue um that we see there as well and so if we want to scroll through like this is your general fund um just did a quick Lance the the only um function that that we are we are spending well in or probably a little overspent is is transportation so function 34 and a big part of that is that we

088bought the buses and we paid for those this month so that was about 1 Point little over 1.6 million that that covered the bus purchase so that's where you see that number kind of jumping right out there so and probably why we're a little a little heavier on the spent a little more 43% because we had one of those big purchases come out of General fund then if we scroll through Child Nutrition um revenue and expenses are pretty On Target we're usually just a tiny bit behind in in Booking Revenue um from from our claims report we try to get that in there as quick as we can but um again we're still we're more than half collected on the local side and um pretty close on the federal revenues as well that's the part

089that always lags a little bit behind um so looking looking good and those funds she does have some capital projects that and and bigger ticket items that she'll still be replacing as we go through the school year and and into the summer and then on the The Debt Service that's the one at the very top you see kind of that loan 8.1 million and that's the amount that was transferred um from the bond account into our debt service account to make that debt payment so there's and then as I said before in the expense area that's including our payment plus our our defance that we did in December so we'll have one more payment in August and an additional defance um assuming revenues continue to look good and we'll be in a good spot right

090before I came up I checked our our tax Collections and we were about 82% um on The Debt Service and now we're sitting with only about 7even 8% left to collect as we're moving through February so so tax collections look really good this year so that's that's moving in the right direction as well and then um with Bond we have Bond 23 and again um we still have our two projects that are currently out for bid right now so the A and Roc um bids are due back on the 18th of March and then we have our bids due tomorrow actually on Middle School 3 so we'll see we'll see how those go and so you see a little bit of money sitting in there um for those projects and then down below below you

091see that some of that debt payment Reserve um coming out so we have the 6.8 left um for the August payment that we're going to hold on to in there until until we get ready to make that payment still earning over 5% interest um on our on and so still sitting there with the 18 18 million sitting in the interest account as well and then for Bond 24 um we're really just kind of of holding tight at this point um with the stadium improvements I'm sure we'll have something encumbered for that here soon with the change order um and then collecting a little bit of Interest as we go through um the first couple months of having that that issued as well do youall have any any questions about the financials all right well that's

092it thank you next we have the first reading for tasby initiated local policy update 124 Dr Kos and now for the exciting part policy so just to review about twice a year tasby comes out with numbered policy updates for for school boards uh the reasons for these policy updates or changes in state laws right our policy needs to reflect those changes and so you know as as the board knows there's two types of policies there's legal and local legal is we don't touch right School District does not touch those are just policies that are put in place by by the state because of current law with with local you can take some of those legal policies and and um adjust them modify them uh to fit your school district more appropriately right and so those

093are the those are the policies come to school boards for approval and so we have um a list of those local policies uh for you tonight we will just review tonight board can take the next uh month to to uh look at those a little bit more closely and we'll come back next meeting and answer any questions and if there are none or no concerns and uh we will move forward with approving those policies but you can see I provided you a quick little overview a little summary of each of the local policies that are are are there are some changes to CAA local which deals with fiscal management goals and objectives and in particular Financial ethics C uh CDA local other revenues and Investments Cy local which is um over intellectual property DH local

094is employees standard of conduct uh ehb local is curriculum design and special programs ebb local special programs and in particular are gifted and talented students FFG local is student welfare and in particular child abuse and neglect and then GK local deals with community relations and conduct on school pre premises in particular so you've got a little summary each one of those you've also been provided uh the policy and the changes that would be made to the policy in your in your board book and so any questions right now over any of the policies again you'll have the next month to review and come back with any questions you might have okay any questions okay moving on we have the superintendent briefing Dr KS okay so point out some highlights in the district so if you

095go to the first slide you will see that we had some uh students and a teacher recognized at the uh most recent Chamber of Commerce awards banquet so two of our seniors Juliana Herrera and Jonah Winkler were both presented with the junior citizens of the Year award and then U Laos teacher Norma Norma Joe Hecker was a named educator of the year so congratulations to those students and Miss Hecker and uh appreciate all that they do for our school district next slide we had some students on athletic Signing Day that um that signed to play at the next level so you see we had one of our volleyball players Kenne Graham who's going to play at East Texas and in Commerce there you go and then um Alysa Montes will play softball at Pratt Community

096College so congratulations to those two young ladies uh this takes a lot of hard work right and dedication and in order to accomplish something like this so very proud of both of those students next slide you can see our elementaries had their UIL academic competition and uh you know these elementaries they take this thing pretty serious so you know um Pat Trinkle came out on top this year as as far as winning the uh contest and so congratulations to patranco and I know we're going to have some other elementaries that are going to be quite motivated next year to get that crown back so thank you to all the teachers right this is this is all extra work on our teachers and so they put in a lot of additional hours preparing our kids for

097these events and then we had uh quite a few kids that actually participated so uh thank you to all the all the teachers all the staff members that helped out with this and then also for those students for all their hard work as well so we're hot and heavy into our our FFA stock shows and so um we had uh one young man white ducus ducus ducos excuse me ducos who's a freshman at the high school who won Grand Champion right Market burrow at the San Antonio Stock Show in rodo so uh congratulations to Wyatt this is a this is an amazing accomplish accomplishment maybe a once in a liftime he overall Grand Champion yeah overall so that doesn't happen very often yeah this is extremely rare I think they were saying something about well

098I heard once that it was the first time from Medina County then somebody said the only time in Medina County was like 1974 that until like 50 something years yeah so aming C and we're g to we're going to try and get him to one of the board members to recognize him here at a board now he's not the only one that's had success right we've had quite a few students that have had success and I think if you go to the next slide uh you know here's some of the other students we're going to try and get some of these students up here as well to recognize at at a future board meeting but just very proud of our of our FFA program our FFA a teachers who do an outstanding job with these

099kids and all the kids and and this is a lot of work too right for these kids this is a big responsibility for them that's a lot of money for some of this stuff so U very very proud of them as well okay as we move on so we U as mentioned earlier both of our our boys and girls basketball teams did qualify for the playoffs um they had they did have an early exit uh but I know there's a lot of excitement around both of these programs U had both of them have SE several young athletes on their teams and so high expectations for both these teams moving forward our Panther choir sang the national anthem at one of the recent San Antonio Spurs games at Frost Bank Center and so um my understanding

100is they did a great job with this and you know that's a that's that's that had to be a neat experience for them so proud of them as well okay now for the real fun stuff legislative update so thanks thanks first of all to miss Hermes right she did a great job of trying to summarize a lot of these do with f deal with Finance right because that's that's one of our main F that's one of everybody's main focuses this session what are they going to do with the money and so vouchers are a big part of that they call them esas educa what is it Miss Miss educational savings accounts doesn't that sound official uh most people know them as vouchers but so you can see that last time that that we uh presented

101the senate had some information on on vouchers our house did not this now house has put something out as well and so both um both the house and the Senate are are allocating a billion dollars towards uh these V cures and you can see for the house uh students that would qualify this mainly it's based on their family income right as far as whether or not they would qualify and the and the and the Senate is pretty much along the same lines as well it deals with u more of the lowincome families U approved accreditor or approved providers so you can see both of them have something in the language where they would have to take some type of norm reference assessment um each year uh the amount how much would each student get um

102on the Senate side it's just a blanket okay U if they attend a private school they're going to get $10,000 if they are student with uh special needs and they will get an additional ,500 whereas on the house side it's it's more related to the um to the um the average daily attendance right and so it's they have some special ed u weighted funding in there as well so bottom line is the house I don't think would allocate as much as as the Senate has uh has in their in their bill but it it's still something right now for homeschool students both uh put a flat $22,000 per student and um I still have a lot of questions on how EX exactly that's going to work and then lastly the uh required reporting again with

103the assessments it's it's not really you know they have to take a norm reference assessment but the question is what are they going to have some type of standard that that kid has to meet on that assessment in order to continue to get that money and I it's just unclear to me um whether or not they're going to do that and and how they're going to do that again the big question on how they're going to manage this whole thing right who's going to keep track of all this stuff so that's some information on vouchers now so you see Senate has their bill house house their bill you know uh what moves forward is the big question so probably there's going to be uh some given and taken on both ends they're going to try

104and have to work it out and kind of see where things go with that so we'll see how that all shapes up okay next slide is some information on school Finance both both uh Chambers allocated an additional about 4.85 billion uh towards public Ed funding um on the house side it's related more to an increase in the basic allotment so you can see it would go from 6160 to 6380 per student uh they do have they have written in there that 40% of that increase in the basic allignment would have to be earmarked uh for compensation on the Senate side you can see it's much more allocated toward towards teacher and teacher pay so those teachers that are three to 3 to five years of experience would get about 2500 additional dollars and those with

105more than five would get 5,500 additional dollars they do not have anything in there for teachers 0o to three so the question is or you know if we do anything with them who's going to fund that we're going to have to fund that more than likely okay um special ed funding so you can see the house has something in their bill on some additional special ed funding Senate has yet to to pass any bill that relates to special ed funding and then the tax compression hold harmless so both you can see both of them have something in there on this and this is this is a little bit scary for us if something moves forward with this as far as uh doing away with some of those hold harmless provisions and so we're going to

106monitor this one really closely hopefully that one doesn't get a whole lot of R raction and then the last thing property tax relief is another big one with the with the legislators and so they want to do some things to uh relieve uh taxes on on the taxpayers as well again both have increased funding for this uh in the amount of about 3.5 billion the house has yet to to pass a bill related to this but you can see what the the Senate has done they um are focusing on the uh homestead exemption increasing that from 100,000 to 140,000 and then the other thing that's a little scary is the uh defeasance and not allowing school districts to you know pay down debt and so y'all y'all saw the benefit of that we just did

107some of that right pay down some of our some of our bond debt uh the benefits are you you um create more bonding capacity by doing that and also you you don't you don't have to pay interest on that debt that you pay down so you save some in interest fee right and so um this one this one is a little scary too as far as whether or not they move forward with something like this as well so you would have to follow the amortization schedule exactly like it when you when you sold it because this one's really kind of funny I think um so they they basically want you to set your tax rate at exactly what you need to make your debt payment and also take into consider that hold harmless and so

108what they would do is if you collect more than your debt payment they're not going to give you the hold harmless they're going to take some of that back until you basically have so you couldn't do a Defence and then you also would not be able to put anything into your ins fund balance either so they're going to they're not going to give you any hold harmless money above and beyond um what you absolutely had to have to make your debt payment without allowing you increase fund balance yeah you yeah you can't can't do that either so District but fast growth districts that would be it's horrible horrible for us horrible it's yeah it's it's not good and so most of most of the fast growth districts will will probably have a lot of opinions

109and thoughts on this that people will hear about over the next next couple months I mean I think the other piece is the phasing out the hold harmlessness like that's just you know those we know when they put those in place that they're somewhat temporary but at the same time like that that's another um pretty big detriment that will start eating away at our at our capacity as well so so yeah not not great um dror so I had um 51 billion on here before and it's really the 3.5 that is for additional but the tab right now to continue all the hold harmless is is 51 billion so 3.5 is adding on to that but where we're at right now is still a very high Mark of where the state's money is going towards

110instead of instead of funding schools it's going towards a lot of property tax relief and and that's great for everyone if we can make it work but it is it is starting to be quite the dollar amount that's going to need to be used every by anym in order to fund that so is it sustainable that's the question that's the question yeah and even even on the keep yeah well and I did kind of an exercise too on the teacher pain sorry this just gets to be a little bit of my soap box so I can't help it um but but when you look at even even something like Tia or the teacher incentive allotment if you we have about 50% of our staff are teachers um or at least on the teacher pay scale

111and then of those you're going to certify a certain amount right that would get it and of and so you just start to and when there's no new funding for anything outside of that particular group you still have to fund Insurance utility increases your auxiliary staff your non- teer non people that aren't on the teacher pay scale and there's nothing new in on the Senate side that covers any of that and so that's where it gets um to me just a little scary like I like the the the directness to the teacher pay but it also is not doing anything for the inflationary pieces that we all are dealing with so hopefully we'll meet in the middle a little bit between these two but we'll see any other questions on legislative session it's just starting

112to get fun this is where we getting exciting you know every day is a new day okay next slide please Scott update on District enrollment so you can see where we're getting close to that 9800 and um you know that's right at a th000 compared to the end of last school year so any any questions on the enrollment okay and then lastly is our employees of the month so here's a list of all of our employees of the month for each campus and department so you can see again we want to just recognize all the a lot of the um outstanding employees that we have in the school district so congratulations and thank you to all of those employees any other questions for me thanks all right moving on getting into discussion and and possible

113action items we'll start with consider approval of minutes for regular board meeting January 27th 2025 and special board meeting on January 31st 2025 and February 12th 2025 Dr Kos so the the minutes from the regular board meeting on January 25 27th 2025 the special board meeting on January 31st 2025 and the special board meeting on February 12th 2025 have been reviewed and are recommended for approval any questions if not I'll look for a motion I Matt cleone moved to approve the board minutes for the January 27th 2025 regular meeting and the January 31st 2025 and February 12th 2025 special meetings as presented I have a motion to have a second I Ben want a second the motion I have a motion and a second any further discussion not all those in favor raise your hand

114all board members voted for and the motion carries next we have consider approval to renew the District of innovation plan Mr mcgo good evening Mr President board members Dr Kos um as you know I came last board meeting and gave you a presentation um so just to go through the steps on the DOI plan so we first initiated our first meeting with dwac and reviewed it with them uh then we did present it to both our elementary teacher advisor uh Council and our secondary and we brought it back to dwac to vote on it uh they voted and approved it on uh December 17th we brought it to you on January 17th we made some adjustments to it after we met with you and then we held our public car on February 11th so at

115this time I'm bringing the plan back minus the um unwed guest off the list so what we have here is currently the first one would be uh start of school day wouldn't be before uh the first Monday in August which is exactly the same that we currently have uh class ratio again it's the same as we had last year not to exceed uh 23 to1 and definitely would come back to you on the board if we do exceed it um teacher certification is the same that we had before we're only ask asking for exemptions for CTE or languages other than English uh to be exempt from that student transfer um this was the same as last year as those outside the district uh that we could say no to the transfer any time of the

116year transfer of uh police officers children that is new that we asked in in there so that we would be able to consider our fast growth and if we had room at campuses um transfer student service members also new also the same thing fast growth we would ask for the exemption that we're able to deny those based on the room at campuses um number seven is designated a campus Behavior coordinator for a campus at the current time it says a person we're asking to be exempt from that and have multiple people at our larger campus campuses and then uh minimum attendance is new we're asking to have some leadway for those students that have um misclass a lot due to uh enrichment activities academic activities and extreme extenuating circumstances uh so it has made through

117all of our committees and approval and we're bringing it back to you minus the one that uh we discussed at the last meeting of unwanted guests so we ask that you would take in consider consider the the renewal plan as presented moving into the 25 26 school year any questions and I'll look for motion I Jason Bonnie move to approve the renewal of the District of innovation plan as presented I have a motion do I have a second I Joe beer second the motion I have a motion and a second any further discussion not all those in favor raise your hand all board members voted for and the motion carries next we have consider approval of the 2526 Flex calendar Dr M Mr MC that's okay so we didn't bring this with our regular academic

118calendar we wanted that one approved before we did the optional flex days uh we've done this in the past so we're bringing back the calendar once we have our academic calendar established and I do believe there's three days in April and four days of May that those students at the high school that meet those requirements uh would be uh have the option of flexing that day to be out it's very positive for our students our students do not want to miss out on those activities uh so they they meet their attendance requirements all other requirements that the high school has in place for them so we ask that you approve this calendar as president any questions not I'll look for motion hi Matt cion moveed to approve the 2025 2026 Flex calendar as presented motion

119to have a second I J Campbell second the motion I have a motion and second any further discussion not all those in favor raise your hand all board members would for and the motion carries next we have consider approval of eate contracts with United data Technologies for Creek View high schools networking equipment Mr L good evening uh we did eate bids for the networking equipment for Creek View um there's several vendors that bid on the equipment uh United data Technologies came out the win in our bids so this will be for purchasing the initial switches access points and backup batteries for Creek View High School um two separate contracts one is for Network networking equipment the others for the backup batteries and we' ask that you approve those contracts the purchase will actually occur uh

120once the e- rate purchasing uh window opens in April or later so we will apply apply for the e- rate program in April where does the e-rate program stand right now um no news on th far so all funding is still business as usual until we hear otherwise right we're going to we're going to have to purchase this equipment regardless of if we receive funding or not um that funding decision usually occurs sometime between July and October um so we'll file for the reimbursement after what was the percentage on the reimbursement we're at about 80% 80% so this is around $500,000 total um so we should be getting back about 400,000 what do we budget for this is in bond this would be correct but did we budget for the full amount and not receiving

121any back I I believe we did yes okay so that would be excess funds we have it as a line item on the Sol cost for the but full purchase price correct yes okay and and the bids actually came back really really good on this so better than we expected any other questions now I'll look for a motion I Joe beer moved to approve the eate contracts with United data Technologies for Creek View high schools networking equipment as presented I have a motion to have second I been W second the motion I have a motion and second any further discussion not all those in favor raise your hand all board members voted for and the motion carries next we have consider approval approval for payment of CPS invoices for Creek View High School's gas infrastructure

122in the amount of $155,200 yes sir CPS is the natural gas provider uh throughout the district uh and we have uh been negotiating with CPS for the last few months in order to bring the service uh not only just the mainline but also the service to uh Creek View High School we have received uh two invoices again one for the mainline and the other for the service line uh totaling $5,245 and 87 cents uh and it is our recommendation that the board approve uh these payments to CPS to provide gas gas service to crec high school and this was a I mean this is this is all this will be the last invoice for that for CPS gas CPS gas the only thing that will be pending would be the RightWay easement but there's no

123cost to that that's more IL legal um paperwork on on the Eastman piece okay the planning and this is again Bond funding for the high school right yes sir this is soft cost budgeted cost for 2023 bond funds thank you any other questions now I'll look for motion I'm Matt cleone mooved to approve the payment of CPS invoices for Creek View High School's gas infrastructure in the amount in the amount of $15,246.86 cents as presented I have a motion to have a second I Jason Bonnie second the motion I have a motion second any further discussion not all those in favor raise your hand all board members voted for and the motion carries next we have consider approval of storm water part participation fee for Middle School number three to the city of San Antonio

124for $93,900 so this is for Middle School number three uh the regional storm water management program requires any developer uh to really pick either or either do uh detention uh onsite or pay a fee uh in lie of the detention uh talking to our design team we are recommending that we pay the fee in uh in lie of building a detention pond in the amount of $93,900 to be funded out of 2024 bond funds is this a onetime fee just to join the program yes okay any other questions not I'll look for a motion I Joe beiger moved to approve the storm water participation fee for Middle School number three to the city of San Antonio for $93,900 as presented I have a motion to have a second I been want to second the motion

125I have a motion and second any further discussion not all those in favor raise your hand all board members voted for and the motion carries next is consider approval of Abit agreement extension for financial audit services not to exceed the amount of $55,000 Mrs herish yes so our our annual audit will for this next school year so the 2425 school year audit that will take place um starting this summer this is the um engagement letter provided by abip which are our current audit team they when we did the original RFQ it was for one year with two um optional extensions and so if we approve this this would be year three we would go into and so then the following year around this time we would do a new RFQ next year um the cost

126is 53,1 plus just printing out of pocket costs so we don't it a plan on this to exceed 55,000 and this would actually be something budgeted in next year's budget um we just need to move forward with the engagement letter any questions yeah what was the cost for this last year for the audit Services it was about 2,000 less than this so it's about want to make sure they didn't get overwhelmed and go up by 100% something no I think we get more overwhelmed than they do so okay all right thank you I look for a motion I'm Matt cleone move to approve the extension of the agreement with abip for financial audit Services as presented I have a motion I have a second I been what was second the motion I have a motion

127and a second any further discussion not all those in favor raise your hand all board members voted for and the motion carries next we have consider approval of Child Nutrition purchase of food from Cisco not to ex exceed 65,000 or or other amount so we put most of our food expenditures that we anticipated spending over 50,000 on our onetime kind of pre-approval list um when we approved the budget this particular vendor we're anticipating going o was not on that list and now we're anticipating going over 50,000 to approximately 65,000 um sometimes just with the availability of food we end up using one vendor more than than another so it's still um in line with our overall food budget at this time and this is not part of a spend down plan or anything on the

128Food Service budget no any other questions I to look for a motion I Jason Bonnie moved to approve the Child Nutrition purchase of the food from Cisco not to exceed $65,000 as presented I have a motion do I have a second I'm Matt cleone second the motion I have a motion and second any further discussion if not all those in favor raise your hand all board members voted for and the motion carries next we have consider approval of industry based Certification testing services by national health career Association for the amount of $6 67,8 35 Miss Hendricks so we are basically just moving this so this was part of Southwest Junior College um their contract they paid for all of the testing but it was in our bill so now that we've moved away from them

129we this these are all the um industry based certifications that they need for this program so this was budgeted for we're just moving it from Southwest Junior College to this new company I do have a question do we add any new certifications to the testing process are the exact same ones we did from the other J I think they are the exact same ones that we did um I'm not aware of any new ones I know they do the EKG and the photomy um they do the CC ma um I don't think we added any any new ones okay the same any other question questions if not I'll look for a motion I Joe beer moved to approve the industry-based Certification testing Services by national health career Association for the amount of $ 67,8 35

130as presented I have a motion I have second I Jason Bonnie second the motion I have a motion to Second any further discussion not all those in favor raise your hand all board members voted four and the motion carries next we have consider approval of budget amendment Miss herish yes so so every year and in fact I was just doing campus allocations um for our for our principles um for next year's budget this the last couple days but but we base that basically on the demographic report and then when we get more updated information at snapshot um then we do try to make adjustments to them so as a just as a reminder we do $120 per student um that we allocate out to each campus for their discretionary funds for staff development and and

131supplies for the campus and so when we see that adjustment this is kind of what this is what we presented and so the overall cost is 35520 um if we'll slide down just a little bit we did at the same time I was having campuses and principles do their mid-year budget reviews and so while they were going through that process we also corrected a few function codes and so it wasn't as clean as just saying oh this campus is putting it here and this campus is moving it here so we did did some other adjustments that we itemized out there on the purpose of the amendment for y'all and so a lot of it you'll see the main increases are going into function 13 for additional staff development and then we're also seeing some increases

132in function 31 which is for um testing um and so really where where that kind of came into play is we are are doing additional act and TSI testing as you've kind of heard us talk about a little bit earlier this evening and so that those expenses were budgeted in Function 11 but they really go in 31 um for testing expenses and so so we did have to make some allocation so we're not I don't want you to think we're pulling from instruction or pulling from extracurricular it's just that we were reallocating some things to do that staff development and putting things in the right function code for for what they're needing to do for the rest of the year and we kind of itemized that out for yall but if yall have any questions

133about that so it's reallocation plus a 35 520 in INE corre yeah so it's kind of accomplishing two things and and one stone so I had them give me all of their we went and met over their current budget at the same time so that we could make sure we put it brought one amendment to you and put everything in the right place to get us through the rest of the year I mean because we because we exceeded our predicted enrollment I mean this should all come out in the wash with our with our funding correct correct yeah we're anticipating the additional funding um based on the students as well this is just a small part to ensure that the campuses have what have what they need um based on that growth and it it

134keep creates kind of an element of fairness is for the ones that have really grown since the start of the school year or if if the demographer for one reason or another didn't quite get it right then it kind of fixes that problem for them any other questions now I look for a motion I Ben wattis uh move to approve the budget amendment as presented I have a motion to have a second all Jason Bonnie approve um second the motion I have a motion and a second any further discussion if not all those in favor raise your hand all board members voted for and the motion carries thanks for approving the motion next we have close close session the time is 8:07 p.m. and the Board of Trustees will now convene and Clos session as

135authorized by section 55171 55174 55176 55108 9 and 551 072 of the Texas open meeting act to discuss agenda items 7 a through D no action will be taken in Clos session the board is now in Clos session e e e the board is reconvening into Open session at 9:23 p.m. for the record no action was taken in close session as a discussion item in close session we um discuss the state safety audit on one of our campuses and the corresponding um action plan next item on the agenda is consider approval of a revision to the 2425 Compensation Plan with the addition of the new position of District police officer and the new position of security specialist Mr mcgo good evening again uh so we're come to coming to the board to approve our police

136officer the job description was provided to you and the pay grade would be on our manual trades it's a new pay grade on that uh manual trades section and the starting pay for that would be start at$ 28 uh dollar per hour um and then our security specialist R to do a job description for that as well and we're suggesting their pay be on a teacher pay scale um for future hires to be paid on on that scale for a security specialist so I ask the board approve both positions the police officer and the security specialist as presented any questions now I'll look for motion I been W is moveed to approve the revision to the 2004 2025 Compensation Plan with the addition of the new position of District police officer and the new position

137of security specialist as presented I have a motion I have a second I Jason Bonnie second the motion I have a motion and second any further discussion if not all those in favor raise your hand all board memb members voted for and the motion carries next we have consider approval of appointment of special personnel as security specialist authorized to carry a weapon Mr W good evening again this uh this item is is what we discussed in Clos session to approve the uh the Personnel that will carry a weapon on campuses hi Matt cleone move to approve the appointment of specific personnel as security specialist authorized to carry a weapon as presented in close session I Joe beer second the motion I have a motion and second any further discussion not all those in favor raise

138your hand all board members voted for and the motion carries next is consideration of future meeting dates the next regular board meeting is scheduled for March 31st 2025 at 6 p.m. last we have is adjournment and I'll look for a motion I'm Matt CLE only move to adjourn the regular board meeting at 9:26 p.m. on February 24th 2025 I have a motion to have a second all Jason Bonnie second the motion I have a motion and a second all those in favor raise your hand all board members voted for and we are adjourned thank you